Born in Aichi in 1951. Becomes involved in independent filmmaking as a student of Kobe University. Discovers Stan Brakhage in 1974 and steps into the world of individual experimental images. Engages in constructing a petrochemical complex in Iran in 1978. Returns to Japan a year later due to the KhomeinÄ« revolution. Joins the kick off of Voyant Cinémathèque in 1983. Leads the image exhibition based on individual and new work shows, “The Image Cosmology”, since 1996 and continues till today. Also, he continues to produce “The Ecosystem Series”, his lifework.

Teruo Koike Biography / Wiki
Name | Teruo Koike |
Also Know | å°æ± ç…§ç”· |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Directing |
Place of Birth | Aichi, Japan |
Date of Birth | |
Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 1 |
Deathday | 2022-03-16 |
Teruo Koike Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
A (possible) trip around the world in super 8 | 2021-04-21 | A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the “s8” boom of the 1970s discuss their work an… | |
Teruo Koike Directing Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Ecosystem 6 ~ A Sort of Mycelium | Director | 1989-07-15 | Ecosystem-6: A Sort of Mycelium is a mesmerizing compound of patterns found in the organic world. Static elements – ropes, a forest – come to life… |
Ecosystem 5 ~ A Tremulous Stone | Director | 1988-08-21 | The ecosystem series which started in 1981 counts 15 and is still growing, becoming Koike’s lifework. Through the series, Koike has shot a huge amount… |
Ecosystem 27 ~ Density 1 | Director | 2018-06-30 | Part 27 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series…. |
Ecosystem 29 ~ Density 3 | Director | 2020-01-01 | Part 29 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. Digital… |
Ecosystem 20 ~ Stone | Director | 2013-01-01 | Inside a stone, I found an architecture with light and time, this is my work. – TK… |
Ecosystem 17 ~ Castor | Director | 2010-01-01 | Part 17 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series…. |
INSECT | Director | 1983-01-01 | 8mm film directed by Teruo Koike… |
Ecosystem 9 ~ Quicksand | Director | 1993-01-01 | Part 9 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm… |
Winter Horizon | Director | 1986-01-01 | 8mm film directed by Teruo Koike… |
Ecosystem 7 ~ A sedimentary Heat | Director | 1990-01-01 | Part 7 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm… |
Ecosystem 16 ~ Geoid | Director | 2009-01-01 | Part 16 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm… |
Ecosystem 14 ~ Stay | Director | 2004-01-01 | Part 14 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. Video… |
Ecosystem 15 ~ Lunar Libration | Director | 2006-01-01 | Part 15 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series…. |
Ecosystem 30 | Director | 2020-04-29 | Part 30 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series…. |
Movie Film Project to Overcome COVID-19 | Director | 2020-05-03 | The global coronavirus infection has deprived filmmakers of the opportunity to screen and present their films. Filmmakers can’t help but be stuck in t… |
Sea Lily | Director | 1974-01-01 | First short film by Teruo Koike. – “Lost work. Trees standing up vertically. I rolled the camera following what my shaken heart said.”… |
Study | Director | 1975-01-01 | “The first film in which I was a scriptor, actor and director. Many thanks for my schoolmates who kindly cooperated to appear in this movie.” -Teruo … |
Alvileo | Director | 1976-01-01 | “I was crazy about collecting photographs I got interested in scientific journals.”… |
Fomalhaut | Director | 1979-01-01 | Short film by Teruo Koike. 18fps/8mmfilm/silent… |
Eusthenopteron | Director | 1979-01-01 | Short film by Teruo Koike. 18fps/8mmfilm/silent… |
Ecosystem 1 | Director | 1981-01-01 | The first entry in the Ecosystem series. – “In Alvileo, Fomalhaut, Eusthenopteron and this Ecosystem-1, I tried to create a collage-box of universe by… |
Horizon of the winter | Director | 1982-01-01 | “My strong interest in and longing for movies were beginning to take shape, but I still was not clear about what I should create. Therefore, those day… |
Ecosystem 2 | Director | 1983-01-01 | “I thought of disassembling one second by sticking opaque scotch tape on 8mm films to shut existing images. How much information can we put in 1/24 se… |
At the garden-in Winter | Director | 1984-01-01 | “I pointed the camera at the trees and bushes in my lodgings’ garden. I just wanted to keep watching them.” VTR/sound… |
Aldebaran | Director | 1984-01-01 | “Tried to make a movie incorporating video noise which was generated by pointing a camcoder directly to a TV monitor.” VTR/sound… |
Ecosystem 12 ~ Conjunction | Director | 2003-01-01 | Experimental 16mm short by Teruo Koike…. |
Ecosystem 8 ~ A chain Eclipse | Director | 1991-01-01 | Part 8 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm… |
Ecosystem 3 | Director | 1985-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 4 | Director | 1987-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 10 ~ A Dripping Moss | Director | 1996-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 11 ~ The Eccentricity | Director | 2002-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 13 ~ Umbra Cone | Director | 2003-01-02 | … |
Ecosystem 18 ~ Particle Dynamics | Director | 2011-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 19 ~ Gemini | Director | 2012-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 21 ~ Canis Majoris | Director | 2015-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 22 | Director | 2016-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 23 ~ Time | Director | 2016-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 24 ~ BlacK | Director | 2016-01-02 | … |
Ecosystem 25 ~ BlacK 2 | Director | 2017-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 26 ~ Vibrating Sand | Director | 2018-01-01 | … |
Ecosystem 28 ~ Density 2 | Director | 2019-01-01 | … |
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